There’s a new terminator in town

The Harley-Davidson Softail Fat Boy ridden by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s robot is even more pitiless in updated form

Way back when God's dog was only a pup, the newspaper I worked for at the time sent me to Canada on an exchange scheme. As an Irishman, I can say it was a uniquely Irish exchange scheme, in that I went over there but nobody came back. So I was walking down the street, trying to figure it all out, when I found myself outside the local Harley-Davidson dealership.

I spent a happy hour dreaming inside, and when I told one of the photographers on the paper later, he said: "Cool. Did you see the Fat Boy?"

"Well, there was one guy behind the counter but he looked in pretty good shape," I said with the innocence of youth. He looked back at me as if I was an idiot, which in the circumstances was a fair assessment.